Ajax fan group F Side 76 have put out a statement which is doesn’t leave any room for confusion.
In a nutshell, a number of Ajax supporters are sick and tired of being hounded by the press.
It has emerged that yesterday in London journalists were asked for the umpteenth time not to film these fans.
Sure, a casual panorama of supporters is welcome, to provide a sense of atmosphere for all the folks watching at home, but let’s not confuse what’s going on here.
Football has a bad reputation and there are only so many clicks that can be procured from a dull old football match.
This blog is no exception, and like others yesterday I covered the Dutch loon who clambered up scaffolding to lead a chant in before the Champions League game against Spurs.
A potentially great way to boost a football story is try and capture some of the dark old days.
At Spurs we’re used to all manner of tactics that were used to routinely ‘just happen’ to catch Paul Gascoigne in the street in-between his home and his off licence.
Equally, a photographer annoying a person in order to provoke a response and therefore a story is one of the oldest tricks in the book.
Fans lawfully eating and drinking in public should be shown a modicum of respect, not treated as exhibits at a zoo.
F Side make the point that some of their number might be pulling sickies in order to follow their team. Is it in the public interest that these people are outed? Of course not.
‘Mummy mummy, can I poke the bear?’
The statement from F Side unashamedly shows no remorse for what it describes as ‘a skirmishes’ between the press and fans.
Thumping people is not to be championed, but if you are foolish enough to poke a bear, the odds are you won’t do it a second time.
Unless you’re stupid.
Quite alarming really to think of our defenders and midfield cover coping with Messi; looks as though we shall be spared that embarrassment.
Hahahahaha
Oh goodie we are going to be in the final.
On the subject of the press, the ever ultra PC and bastion of all left win thinking in the UK has run a story about Sissoko’s confidence about the return leg in Amsterdam with a picture of Wanyama during the game with the caption; ‘Moussa Sissoko shields the ball from Donny van de Beek during Tottenham’s 1-0 defeat to Ajax’…
Lol. I will be too busy being dead following the heart attack of beating Ajax with what ever 11fit men we find in and around Tottenham.
Barca are a very good one man team…
ENIC – 18 years and one League Cup 11 years ago. I stopped getting exited about it when they sold Berbatov and Keane and bought Darren Bent. I gave them the benefit of the doubt when they sold Carrick and bought Didier Zokora and blamed Comolli as Levy wanted me to.
I realised a long time ago that ENIC aren’t there to win stuff, just make money. Without Poch we would be about 7th…
Suarez is a bit of a weirdo, to be fair…
I doubt you’ll be finding it so funny when he scores a hat trick against us in the final…
I know what you mean. I got the ‘aw but your squad is stretched to the limit’ like it was unavoidable
Its a Paparazzi technique, wind up the subject to get reaction and snap away, email it to the office and let someone with very little imagination build a narrative around, addiction, mental illness or generally acting like a prick.
These are just the ‘Paps’ for the proletariat.
Find it funny reminding Liverpool fans about how “messi is just one guy and a good defence could manage him”
That Messi guy looks pretty good huh.
these bloody new football shirts seem to rip easy, worth the £110.00each then!….you can’t beat the old quadruple stitched le coq sportif ?
RIP Spud
I see Luis ‘gnasher’ Suarez has no qualms about wildly celebrating a goal against his former team.
Great goal too.
I spoke to lots of people today about the game and most described it as being embarrassing whilst feeling sorry for me with a slow pat on my back as though my dog had died….great
So i’m wondering how all the Flat Earthers and Levyologists who have been spouting their particular brand of rationalist reverse snobbery all this time can defend the last weeks football chez THFC bowl? According to them this was the part of the ride we were meant to sit back and enjoy n’est pas? This is the bit where us round earth anti-Levy types would be proved wrong and the true magnificence of what Levy has been ‘building’ all this time would be fully revealed..
A (self) injury ravaged side tiredly embarrassing themselves against a local rival with zippo atmosphere and then having their pants pulled down on the world stage in the semi-finals of the ‘Champions’ league whilst badly playing hoofball to the big lump up front. All in a brand new toilet bowl bought entirely with debt, that nobody wanted or asked for.
Amazeballs, they were right all along.
Addendum: Our team and vast majority of our players playing far less coherently and well below the level we were at two years ago, lost more games this season than the last two combined, for buttons sold a valuable and much loved midfielder that could have done an extremely valuable job for us right around now and unceremoniously shipped him out with not so much as a thought of a testimonial. Didn’t even think to replace him or bring anyone in in January (after becoming the first club in history not to buy any players in the previous Summer transfer window) when we still had a sniff of a proper title challenge and right before injuries started pilling up. Hacked off several of our best players with shabby contract negotiations. Rushed back players from injury and overplayed others to the point of injury and fatigue. Badly fumbled the toilet bowl project and the opening night. Banned the use of White Hart Lane, upped the season ticket prices to eye watering levels, jesus it actually never ends.
What was that we were building again? What ride am i meant to be enjoying? What is it that i’m not seeing??